2016 Map of Highland NW

About this map

Noharts Cr and the Old Channel Big Nemaha River define the undulating landscape of this northern Brown County territory during the mid-2010s. The region is marked by a rigorous section-line grid of rural corridors like Nighthawk Rd and Prairie Rd, which connect scattered agricultural properties and small rural landmarks. For genealogists and local historians, the presence of Laus Creek Cem, Pleasant Hill Cem, and Kenyon Cem provides specific points for tracing family lineages across these rolling prairies. The drainage patterns of Roys Cr and Lost Shirt Cr suggest the natural hydrology that shaped the original settlement of this Kansas-Nebraska borderland, where the terrain transitions from upland plains to the river bottomlands.